Hip!
Hip! Hooray! 30 Years with the American Suzuki Institute
in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
By Margery V. Aber 37
American Suzuki Foundation, 2001

This
slim, charming book reads like a personal diary. The author attended
Oberlin with her sister, Jean Aber Murphy, both graduating in 1937.
Margery Aber studied violin at the Conservatory and moved on to
Columbia for a music education degree. Her career path led her to
a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point,
which followed a trip to Japan where she first encountered Dr. Shinichi
Suzuki and his unique method of teaching violin to very young children.
Aber spent the last 34 years teaching his philosophy, founding the
American Suzuki Talent Institute, the American Suzuki Institute,
and the International Research Symposium in Talent Education. Included
in the book are memories, letters, and stories of the children and
their parents who passed through the Institute, with references
to Oberlin connections and a liberal use of photographs by Art Montzaka,
formerly of the Oberlin faculty. Aber died unexpectedly August 14,
2001, after spending her final day autographing her book at the
Institute in Stevens Point.

From
the first free elections in post-Soviet Russia in 1989 to the end
of the Yeltsin period in 1999, Russias parliament was the
site of great political upheavals. Conflicts between communists
and reformers generated constant turmoil, and twice parliamentary
institutions broke down in violence. This is the first full account
of that inaugural decade, focusing particularly on the emergence
of parliamentary parties and bicameralism. Remington concludes that
parliament has served as a stabilizing influence in Russian political
life. The author is the Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professor for
Global Learning and professor of political science at Emory University.

Oberlin
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies John E. Petersen and
three respected university professors examine in this text the recent
advances in the theory of scaling relationships. They
identify issues that must be considered if experimental results
are used to understand the temporal and spatial scales of actual
ecosystems.

Thermodynamics
and Chemistry
By Howard DeVoe 55
Prentice Hall, 2001

Classical
thermodynamics is concerned with macroscopic aspects of the interaction
of matter with energy in its various forms. Although the author
does not claim this to be an exhaustive treatment of thermodynamics,
this text book concentrates on derivations of fundamental relations
in various areas of interest to chemists. DeVoe is assistant professor
at the University of Maryland at College Park in the departments
of chemistry and biochemistry. He credits his interest in chemical
thermodynamics to two of his first-year Oberlin professors.